January 2018

Wiebe Wakker is driving from Netherlands to Australia in an electric Volkswagen without money and now he is in Indonesia, seen in this picture with that iconic, Kuala Lumpur skyline. He is driving a retrofitted VW Golf.

Chevrolet Camaro Lead Engineer Al Oppenheiser recently told Hagerty that he would like to see a Camaro run a sub-7-minute lap at the Nurburgring and with the need to shave more than 16 seconds to do so, the first step towards that increase in performance is the new LT5 V8 from the Corvette ZR1.

FCA’s Mopar division has renewed its sponsorship of Matt Hagan’s Dodge Charger R/T funny car for the 2018 NHRA racing season while also expanding its sponsorship of Leah Pritchett’s top fuel dragster – giving the Mopar brand a good chance of spending lots of time in the winner’s circle in the coming year.

Honda didn’t announce any real details on the 2019 Insight Prototype that debuted earlier this month in Detroit, but we don’t need hard numbers to know that this is the best-looking version of the hybrid Honda thus far – while also being one of the best-looking hybrids in the US market.

Many people around the auto industry believe that Ford has hinted to the horsepower rating of the 2019 Shelby GT500 in brochure for the 2018 Mustang and if they are right, a new supercharged pony car with 772 horsepower is going to be a real showstopper.

If you are eagerly awaiting the arrival of the long-rumored mid-engine Corvette, you might be waiting almost a year, as a variety of unnamed sources are claiming that the next generation Chevrolet supercar won’t debut until the 2019 North American International Auto Show in Detroit.

While there has been no word from FCA about a Hellcat-powered Ram truck, a possible hint in a company image coupled with the ongoing call for a modern day SRT10 pickup and the arrival of the Jeep Grand Cherokee Trackhawk makes a supercharged Ram 1500 more likely than ever.

Tesla's Autopilot issue is truly horrifying when you are in the midst of expecting the vehicle to stop. Watch this full minute video to the end, writes Bryan Ehrlich, a Model S owner in Tesla Model S Owners Club on Facebook.

Here is another cool Tesla tip! In earlier versions of the Tesla OS, all applications would default to the top half of the screen. Applications like Media, Energy, and Phone now default to the bottom. If you want an application to appear at the top, simply long-press or touch-and-hold the application icon.

We learned back in October that the 2018 Chevrolet Camaro would benefit from a new Hot Wheels 50th Anniversary Edition and we know now that the toy-themed muscle cars will officially go on sale on February 1st.

After Tesla Model S recently crashed into a stopped firetruck many people started to raise the question of how Tesla Autopilot works and how it should work. As a result, some people started critiquing Tesla for calling its system Autopilot.

According to a report in the New York Times, Volkswagen, Daimler, and BMW funded a study to determine if diesel fumes were carcinogenic. The study was seeking an answer to World Health Organization claims that diesel emissions did cause cancer. The automakers backed away from the report.

As workers hurriedly assemble the biggest Car and Truck Show in Oregon, I came upon two Acura models that are generally reserved for special order in much of the U.S..There they sat, in all their sport-hybrid glory.